Nadezhda Buyanova, a 68-year-old paediatrician denounced by a patient's mother for an alleged unpatriotic statement and accused of blaming Russia's armed forces for a military conflict against Ukraine, stands inside an enclosure for defendants during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia November 12, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova, who was born in western Ukraine, was convicted on Tuesday of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. The case began in February when Anastasia Akinshina, the mother of one of ...

But back in February, she was arrested and charged with spreading false information about the Russian armed forces. After a short spell under house arrest, she was placed in pre-t

The doctor denied the accusations saying that as a pediatrician, she would never make comments that would knowingly hurt a child's psyche.

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a pediatrician to five-and-a-half years in prison for criticizing the war in Ukraine during a patient visit earlier this year. Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, was found guilty of spreading "fake" information on the Russian army under wartime laws used to silence dissent.